WSJ 'Digits' blogger Matthew Lynley has new details pointing to an upcoming unveiling of a new smaller iPad from Apple. The 7.85 inch version is expected to launch on October 23. Photo: Getty.

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Apple's new smaller tablets ... back and mall ... right at right now on Digits good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable ... and to kick off the iPad is only ... when users should say ... we have not Lindley all the digits for thank you Brian much for joining us today here ... tells about is what what what do we know and how do we know ... so so far we know based on of reports from many factors the number of other things that we have a smaller I pad coming ... on as can be spun into the pipe Iverson ein nya nine point seven inches this is me about ... so far reports its bets and twenty five inches aam and our server seem to be is like cases pop up ... on I e commerce outfits like Ally up ... and this usually happens because you know they're a number of weeks to come by in some of the I phone five units that is enuf Orange ... phones that was the case for Ford's life and can have these cuts itself ... you know it's pretty much ... what usually happens when the new Apple product is coming up ... and we also we've also got some information from all things to do digital about eight dates beyond what is going to be about to sell things is reporting that the Oct twenty third of Xconomy that day which is interesting because Micra soft spot they were releasing no one has a ... right around that time too ... then you know Micra soft is an tablet called the surface of salsa coming out so ... yet it's an interesting to actually speak if it doesn't intimidate because it's basically when would killing are not kill but to do some serious damage and funny moments in the Mike SUP as moving forward ... so why I find interesting here is the guy with a smaller tablet and one of the great things about the I pad is it's nice and they ended up at some of the fat fingers and then again you know which which wall everyone I know that my phone talks about is that if you get to go ... it's hard to ... type anything ... why would a small ... boy concert of what gets ... the readers for example for some reason art form factors worked out really well you know Amazon's done very well for itself with its e reader so they don't actually releasing numbers but how many candles that sold ... but that's you know those are done very well ... Amazon has its own smaller tablet the Kindle Fire doodle decided to make its own smaller cap with the Nexus seven ... odd note that Barnes Noble's Nook tablets are coming up they have in as a smaller form factor ... so Amazon has the Kindle Fire which is a small one aam but in ... none of those of us who came ... to bed tonight I mean this thing last ... fall at bill Apple especially known for making it the premium tablet brand but what we have seen is that the smaller tablets to demonstrate a kind of like a strong desire for ... not only a small form factor the cheaper price tag ... as that would be looking at the new AIPAC the notes caller ID and then going into this can be a smaller tablets have ... no ... less powerful processor of us Sharp Display ... you're probably looking at a smaller price tag which is what Apple might be going for in this situation another that'll be very interesting because of weak within that small a price tag still a premium ... price for a product of outsized if it if it's consistent with the rest of Apple's products ... that some may not sound like Apple's traditional like strategy ... so good presumably AMR Apple's been working with a levy dashing handle make as you know that don't sign and everything aam did throw the launch of a new product which is what they normally do solos for referral things were available ... boy it usually don't really see any any ... any app that's coming up like in and reports anything like that aam ... no weasels who will see a lot of case makers just Supreme preemptively release these kinds of cases without having any sort of indication that they work directly with a couple ... interesting stuff as I was very excited now thank you very much Matt Lindley all the digits long hands only SJ IEF check them out on the vs Datacom and the digits long ... well if you're watching TV last night you may remember the lot of moolah K in the great divides check this out ... I think that's a much more ... this is a bunch of stuff ... I mean a bunch of stuff well it means is simply in that direction ... I'm that that we are told what to ... oh what a ... when my friend talks about the solitary ... I don't understand what my friends talking about my friend recently is the source said thirty percent of the American people are taken of my friends are insisting on what is my friend cut out the to issue tax credit for them ... I love my friend in ... and though my friend every pain of coincidence I was all about what happened on the ... what this bill last month of the night thank you Brian much Robina ... aam ... I was ... interesting to play a very low grade reliably a lot of humble lucky comments ... I've been ... the floating around that with a spare walled was the the most tweeted ... comments from active ... so when it was a little bit about the debate isn't expected that the bomb market commented the write up top there ... are perhaps the bunch of stuff comment warranty on ... Friday the euro has the cookie jar comment by gem By Paul Ryan ... of baby actually in the most retreated or were treated commented the night was when Joe Biden made a reference the nineteen eighty eight vice presidential debate ... by saying that ... now you're Jack Kennedy ... in reference to the football right now we actually got some autographs he had to take you through the night the size of the Dubai about some tweets of minutes and nine minus last it was of a round about some the fifteen thousand the money goes up one by insurmountable odds it was a surpasses the two thousand ... one hundred range of fifty thousand to amend ... the Jack Kennedy comment that was the peak at sixty thousand the just out of that before nine forty five ready quite quite accelerating map when a lot ... that's correct ... all of all those comments and ... Barbara Lee Preston on Twitter that the molar teeth ... though the marquee word was trending on Twitter for quite awhile and a lot of people making jokes about It Arik inserting Mallart and their lingo as they may not have used it before last I I'd I'd not heard of them ... the larva of interesting words now we got some interesting for the pages of the coming of the move results will move on he drank aam tells about that ... so this this kind of funny on basically a lot of people set up ... drinking games for these vice presidential debates that beer beer sales tend to spike on that's when their debates ... and down the will to certain words are certain phrases and trained at those words ... monarchy was not on the list of those words that they don't think anyone would have expected Joe Biden to talk about marquee ... but as soon as he said that I'd stop my Twitter feed probably at least ten people with the facts in three which was ... the lucky drink or as Helliwell GOP budget ... will Ariki Trig everything you have in your house had everything and does not to leave the neighborhood ... um what one of the other notable things was the son of Joe Biden laughing and smiling and smirking ... at some of that ... Paul Ryan last night ... aam laughing Joe Biden is the new the new Twitter handle ... that's correct actually there at least three Twitter handles that were started last night in reference to on ... Joe Biden smile or to smile for his last thing ... and down Joe Biden last thing was the most popular those that God more than nine thousand followers discovered by ... now what one other things that we're seeing that tweets about is a common saying on on on the ... Job Lions madness ... aam is is that the scene that as well ... as a lot of comments about the manners and outpace the UN is seeing is that it was fairly divided along party lines for that Thompson people who are Democrats were upset about the way that Joe Biden lists on smiling and laughing during the debate while others were defending him ... and aam ... I think that's the same thing that you saw overall news that people aren't sure how to respond ... to a man of God the baby was notable in this pursuit of the smile and the big white teeth aam and and tell us about that now ... with a two for that one ... well it and in that case it was really divided along party lines when you when as a kid the Twitter feeds of people who were Democrats ... they were all saying Joe Biden has said and on people Republicans are all sing Paul Ryan has that ... people generally had a stock with their team and in terms of this ... is a big contrast to last week where when I when I was saying is that even people who were ... big Obama supporters were saying ... that she wasn't doing such a great job and Obama himself and that is not an effect on the last less of a vivid between President Obama ... and Mitt Romney found some of them from planning water right up ... and that didn't happen this time in fact they seem to be all all becomes often wonder ... exactly aam Arthur edit and add ... an extra job according to Twitter followers gay were ... very positive towards her she was canning and one point ... and on Channel eight ... in comparison to Jim Lehrer the comments were overwhelmingly ... positive ... and Dom ... I dance in a few different commenters in a few different tweeter say the same thing which is that ... if Jim Lehrer where it was the big loser of the debate last week she was a big lead ... great stuff that someone was a big one on the essence of the year before when Kiran much Robina Philly and ... on social media ... added ahead of the Wall Street John all ... what's in this weeks top five intact will Talia after the break ... welcome back to Digits Eric the yes J live it's time for your top five intact ... and of course we're joined now by George Stahl all that is his wise men he added that and away ... from acts on I ate I know that you've been scouring through does Ilia mean where does aliens attack stories that ... when you have the top five in Tech so it's a little before nullify number five ... The Workday IPO what what what what what did they make software that helps business venture workforce better ... they went public today the largest tech IPO since Facebook ... are doing very well the prices basically doubled from the price range I was given earlier in the week ... so there's a lot different sentiment ... one week long work day dinner was with the Facebook IPO what what this IPO was a bit more depth about nine billion ... that's a huge company and Mrs business to business of this doesn't happen Colao Ron that Facebook will Groupon's Exec Lee is a first away goal which can be a series of enterprise tech companies coming along that ... may not be as sexy as Facebook Zynga Network Group online ... but they do better in the stock market is because of this is MAS are little bit better established and and I think that's important people come and look around for the stock market about making money the company makes money grows the money management you will get you nothing about her importance of ... or congratulate them on that Workday's IPO mania strong saw ... novel fall ... IBM also makes lotta money Apple but this week and stocks slid and fell into a correction territory down ten percent from its high last month ... it no real solid reason for this for the crash will decline yes yes it's been so concerned about I phone five sales of new supply levels of it ... but it and ... I think that this is maybe just a reflection some profit taking but if the stock is up nearly sixty percent of the human is incredible I mean it when the wind out of the seven hundred and of all I'm this on to what was six hundred and ... thirty one eighty nine Sunday ... it's and it's a boy and went down through six twenty and I'm still phenomenally people this as some people I have for that some boxes ... was amended to include over a well ... well I think that's probably a bit of a storm in a teacup full and I will be one of them none of this police ... earnings and a new possibly and I pad menu for talking about earlier yes bold will savoring the box above upside now the fray ... PC makers had a rough week PC sales slumped more than eight percent in third-quarter hellish yes she ... yes yes I and the Kenyan The recent decline are fairly well known in the weak economy people watched in smartphones and tablets ... ah Paul is needed before the release of the new Windows eight operating system ... but the the severity was still shocking is akin to the back to school period ... when you would expect PC sales stall mode and one other things I'd I did about the PC use to be a path of right and are frequently because that is what what what can happen to see the kiddos for a while it's a very saturated marketed and this was less severe abuzz about a new PC coming out verses buzz over the sport ... that's a long long time ... and um the the seventh ... I another good article BMO week Huawei ... I in ... the House intelligence Committee came out today it this week and concluded that Huawei will would ZTE boost security risk because there could be could be used ... for spying on Americans ... now not all is that they will board line that now they've been fighting back through for the right way to go back and forth like a yo yo EA did it what we call Pierre be concerns baseless ... China centers Cr Alison and warned that it could hurt relations between the two countries ... I'm and I'm at the bit for that for the one while wages Act to seem to be the person who had to kill all the states including sixty minutes did did that the and the company ... now what with the was somebody else defining the Cavanagh was IBM not about was interesting because they've been working with Huawei for years yes and yes it was ... IBM hasn't come out with a common this week but they had been a long time partner with with Huawei ... and and that puts them in a very interesting position because it's ... you know Walid looks as ... IBM is a big reason why the practice of baking if you if you're planning to get the blame IBM ... so it's a ... licensing partner that it is interesting on the spot because IBM does all this of the great looking consulting saying this nation from the business I'm able to see them for a while because this is a this is a big company the bigger ... biggest suppliers of Lonmin tacked on ... telecom equipped right is one of the people didn't know about it so this week ... interesting stuff ... okay ... from world why is that ... I ... Softbank making a move to try to purchase a stake in its current U S investors were walking to the news on Thursday that that's all bank was in advanced talks to get a state ... that people are saying maybe the first step in a consolidation of the U S mobile industry ... and and it's already the Wii console the asthe as it is the number gets me instantly why the bounce of the cell phone bill that I don't know but but but spread and spread is very heavily beloved is in the house ... as the debt to about twenty one billion dollars of long-term debt on its books that that well that that so that's a lot of debt and it also has sliced ... Zales has and always cost a lot of I Phones has gotten so yes yes yes there is a commitment to some with a fifteen billion dollars of of Apple products ... they but for Chile Softbank has a nice balance sheet that he could help Sprint with its bounty issues and that's the idea so he comes and get sprayed a bunch of cash sprinting uses that has to take Everest on she did an awesome review by others in the U S market to consolidate so that maybe there might be of more powerful third while a scary to go up against the big two eighteen T Verizon wireless ... a downgrade of inches and bounds and cools the fifth and bus stop to happen that would we expect ... government to take the equivalent of a stiff competition will be reduced yet it cover to look effort to reach twenty Avici adding another foreign owner coming in to to to buy a major global player ... of but tend to ... be the scene the lake that have ... four companies not necessarily the race of beings who see it that maybe they were bad that ... would be rather have three very strong month or ... two strollers into with minor players or maybe ... the cost of lost also ... I have a cellphone done at ... Foursquare is so thank you very much George Stahl of Darden's Newswires and that spend your top five intact ... I ... welcome to Digits Eric the yes J live I'm Simon Constable you looking at video footage of the Google timetable itself is stepping up a lobbying efforts to get it approved ... across the U S mainland and Rossi of The will Street gentle joining us now from summonses go ... areas in the minds of tells all about it ... thanks for joining us this is fascinating if the propeller head off ... although we see on the top of the car is actually a speeding laser box that shoots one point five million games ... I've in all directions I'm a permit ... I see for second ... and ALM that helps the car find out everything that's going on around it is also a radar in all kinds of sensors infrared sensors ... is a camera looks for whites and shapes ... this car is really really smart car and Dom ... and and this is going to ... get going and and and that's who with great but you may go again to approve to go on the road right I mean if you try to drive the needle license but it does not try them an idea saying that they can write ... exactly so will announce its initiatives ... in twenty ten actually been testing these cars out on the roads and California ... for a bit more than a year ... before they actually announce it that they were testing the kind of secretly ... and that's because in California there was no law ... authorizing reprinting this is is is not something that's been considered by transportation law ... until now ... I'm the guy who knew that eventually whom he was going to create a legal framework for this actually ... become legal on the roads ... I and so it is is it announces initiative and actually also started lobbying for ... legislation to be passed ... so that they seem to be legal now one other thing when someone had been been loving a lot and some in Washington state and it's as if the summits point while they spend about nine ... million box and done ... and that's about double the right of twenty eleven Monday the waistband centers close to ten ... well let's do in Washington D C right now that's that's on the federal side that's federal lobbying spending ... them a wide range of lobbying efforts in watching a nasty with any trust privacy also to buy the things that they had been lobbying ... on the D O T because there are and it's expected that were innocence of Federal regulations related tock honest writing in the future so they wanna make sure ... the lay the groundwork for that most of the lobbying efforts of actually been on the state level he started in Nevada was a very very important place for them to start to get this legislation passed last year to very small state a lot less visible than California ... well a lot easier to pass legislation in the did it very very quietly ... indicated that it would be a great place to start to pray quietly get legislation passed and and all the other states with one enjoyed its as soon as they got the legislation passed Nevada ... to authorize the testing and eventually the operation ... of autonomous vehicles ... I'm ... forty calls California called an Odyssey states of also passed legislation content will we still see what happens ... when house in these things will be over I will thank you Brian much America audio The will Street gentle ... and summonses concrete wall mount the vs Datacom the meantime that's it that's Tages for now all back in full with the new stuff ...